Hello everyone ..
i dont want to go deep in my experience unsure what I should share , but i m gonna share it in a brief and feel free to ask me.
I started preparing one year back , I am still an IMS (MBBS) , needed this long time as i had to stop for the school tests , this made some gaps , so i changed my previous appointment to the summer vacation .
in last week i really couldn't study very well ending up almost missing out 2 days , but I didnt feel bad as i read 1st Aid 6 time (additionally I would always check every answer of the uworld so i mastered it ) i tried to have good sleep so my GP prescribed me a short acting anti-histamine i was on it last week , i was happy i could sleep 7 hrs the night before the exam GOOD SLEEPING is very important .. with a cup of coffee in the morning
when i woke up i felt refreshed , went to the center , got some snacks , coffee (dont drink to much ,caffeine is diuretic ) , RedBull , I everybreak ate something it helped me a lot to stay refreshed
the test Mcqs , they looked like UWORLD and NBMEs 16,17 .. actually i got some exact MCQs from these 2 forms, so make sure u do them they are a must ..
the exam in general was DOABLE but NOT easy many tricks i marked not less than 10 mcqs per block
again the 3 Ps(phrma , path , physio ) are the most important .. anything else is important too but not as such important !!!!!!!
Everyone gives this exam really goes through a different experience , dont try to copy someone's plan .
but get an idea about most important topics , and make sure you master these 4 resources
-1sti aid (the more you read it , the more new things you discover , that you didnt pay attention to in the previous reading )
-UWORLD ( almost 90% of its mcqs are somewhere in 1st aid , for me i would highlight anything mentioned in uworld , it help focus on the super-high-yield things .. so make sure add missing part in 1st aid as it completes st aid )
-Pathoma ( this is the best medical book ever after 1st aid , espically for general pathology e.g. inflammation and cellular injury )
- (+/- )DIT .. if i knew about this very early i would have skipped some of Kaplan videos especially micro , pharma ( except the general pharma , ANS , and cardiac drugs)
if u aint gonna do DIT , at least look for the stars topics (google them )they do show up
my resources in my journey , i don't want to go in details of them .. but feel free to ask about them
- KLN ( I regret reading them twice my colleagues asked to not do it but i did! only read ur weak areas again ) all except micro (did CMMRS . its NOT worthy ) . pathology (pathoma . it looks a very simple books , and it really is! and thats what u need !)
-UWORLD(twice ) , USMLE-RS (not worthy )
- Khan cases for ethics
- HY-Neuroanatomy
finally never copy someone's experince , i once had diffcult time deciding if I should postpone my test and asked my colleagues everyone gave a different opinion . they werent wrong ... but the right decision is mine
wish u the best
i dont want to go deep in my experience unsure what I should share , but i m gonna share it in a brief and feel free to ask me.
I started preparing one year back , I am still an IMS (MBBS) , needed this long time as i had to stop for the school tests , this made some gaps , so i changed my previous appointment to the summer vacation .
in last week i really couldn't study very well ending up almost missing out 2 days , but I didnt feel bad as i read 1st Aid 6 time (additionally I would always check every answer of the uworld so i mastered it ) i tried to have good sleep so my GP prescribed me a short acting anti-histamine i was on it last week , i was happy i could sleep 7 hrs the night before the exam GOOD SLEEPING is very important .. with a cup of coffee in the morning
when i woke up i felt refreshed , went to the center , got some snacks , coffee (dont drink to much ,caffeine is diuretic ) , RedBull , I everybreak ate something it helped me a lot to stay refreshed
the test Mcqs , they looked like UWORLD and NBMEs 16,17 .. actually i got some exact MCQs from these 2 forms, so make sure u do them they are a must ..
the exam in general was DOABLE but NOT easy many tricks i marked not less than 10 mcqs per block
again the 3 Ps(phrma , path , physio ) are the most important .. anything else is important too but not as such important !!!!!!!
Everyone gives this exam really goes through a different experience , dont try to copy someone's plan .
but get an idea about most important topics , and make sure you master these 4 resources
-1sti aid (the more you read it , the more new things you discover , that you didnt pay attention to in the previous reading )
-UWORLD ( almost 90% of its mcqs are somewhere in 1st aid , for me i would highlight anything mentioned in uworld , it help focus on the super-high-yield things .. so make sure add missing part in 1st aid as it completes st aid )
-Pathoma ( this is the best medical book ever after 1st aid , espically for general pathology e.g. inflammation and cellular injury )
- (+/- )DIT .. if i knew about this very early i would have skipped some of Kaplan videos especially micro , pharma ( except the general pharma , ANS , and cardiac drugs)
if u aint gonna do DIT , at least look for the stars topics (google them )they do show up
my resources in my journey , i don't want to go in details of them .. but feel free to ask about them
- KLN ( I regret reading them twice my colleagues asked to not do it but i did! only read ur weak areas again ) all except micro (did CMMRS . its NOT worthy ) . pathology (pathoma . it looks a very simple books , and it really is! and thats what u need !)
-UWORLD(twice ) , USMLE-RS (not worthy )
- Khan cases for ethics
- HY-Neuroanatomy
finally never copy someone's experince , i once had diffcult time deciding if I should postpone my test and asked my colleagues everyone gave a different opinion . they werent wrong ... but the right decision is mine
wish u the best